3.P - TO - How could one turn an Artifact into a creature?

[unseenmage]

The plan is to use a neurocam (https://aonprd.com/EquipmentTechMiscDisplay.aspx?ItemName=Neurocam) to yoink the sentience from the few artifacts described as having it that do not also have the accompanying Int Magic Item stats.

But to do that they have to first be creatures.

Some of these are actual trapped souls, some are malign intelligences, others are just described as sentient but with an exceedingly specific modus operandi.

Copy pasting their minds into blank clone bodies sounds like a very cool very safe and very good idea. Should be fun.

Making artifacts into creatures probably has other uses as well that I just havnt gotten around to figuring out yet too.

Ideas I have so far,
Wish -> improve magic item -> add Figurine of Wondrous Power abilities or Int Magic Item stats

Improve them using PF technology which is priced just like magic items but is exllicitly nonmagical.

Find a spell or class ability or monster superpower that will just animate a magical substance or magic item that also doesnt exclude artifacts.

[Mongobear]

A series of Wishes.

First, Wish that all of your Wishes from now onw cannot be twisted in intent, and are executed exactly as you intended.

Second, Wish your Artifact into Creature shennanigans happens.

Third, ?????

Fourth, PROFIT!!!

[Asmotherion]

Well, I'd start with "be an epic caster" and then "craft an epic golem". Or use some epic spell.

By Raw items with a caster level of 21+ are considered artifacts if I'm not mistaken. So you could theoretically buff you CL into epics and then craft a golem using your full caster level on used spells. However there was some kind of rule about a max price of the item you can craft pre-epic, as well as the total bonus not surpassing +10. Have to check.

Or you could give an item a permanent Dominate Monster spell it can use.

[unseenmage]

As some artifacts are Intelligent Magic Items and Intelligent Magic Items are Constructs adding Intelligence to an artifact could work.

Perhaps choosing an artifact as your Weapon of Legacy and imbuing it with intelligence that way?

[Kaiwen]

Well, I'd start with "be an epic caster" and then "craft an epic golem". Or use some epic spell.

By Raw items with a caster level of 21+ are considered artifacts if I'm not mistaken. So you could theoretically buff you CL into epics and then craft a golem using your full caster level on used spells. However there was some kind of rule about a max price of the item you can craft pre-epic, as well as the total bonus not surpassing +10. Have to check.

Or you could give an item a permanent Dominate Monster spell it can use.

IIRC items with CL>20 are epic, so you'd need the epic item creation feat via either being epic yourself or dragonwrought cheese.
The epic restrictions don't exist in Pathfinder, though, besides the max +5 armor/weapon enhancement bonus, so depending on how OP's version of 3.P is ruled, that might not be an obstacle.

[Calthropstu]

I wonder if true mind switch would work.
My first thought was polymorph any object. But magic items cannot be affected.
If a soul is tied to it, I would see about extracting the soul itself and attaching it to a different body. That should be doable.
Trap the soul on it maybe?

[Unavenger]

March of the Machines Animate Objects? So long as the material used to make the artefacts isn't itself magical (no riverine) you should be good.

[Daefos]

First, Wish that all of your Wishes from now onw cannot be twisted in intent, and are executed exactly as you intended.

Unless your DM twists this wish, which you’re practically inviting them to.